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Christian Hubinger
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 Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 1:11 am Post subject: Gentoo on one partionion (just for a try out) |
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Hi!
I'm getting unsatisfied with my current distribution so I'm looking for an alternative to replace my suse but I need a running enviroment for my work.
So I thought about installing gentoo into a single partition just to have look at it.
I didn't found anything about that in the install instructions nor the faq.
Thanks, for the help
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klieber
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| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 1:24 am Post subject: |
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No reason it shouldn't work -- just make sure grub, etc point to the right place and you should be fine.
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static
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you will need a swap, though, I believe. Other than that I have / as one big one - works fine.
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zerogeny
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i have it on a single 2gig partition and it runs fine. 
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Malakin
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| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 10:25 am Post subject: |
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| I'm also running it on a single partition (no swap) and it's running great. |
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klieber
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| static wrote: | | you will need a swap, though, I believe. |
Hmm...anyone know if you can use the same swap partition between linux distros? Since he has suse installed already, one assumes he already has a swap partition -- couldn't he just re-use that for Gentoo? linux swap is linux swap, right?
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static
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Yep. I do. Works great. 512 MB of shared swap space wedged between the two
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bob_t
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| Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 12:17 am Post subject: Re: Gentoo on one partionion (just for a try out) |
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| Throw it into the demo version of VMWare. I was in the same position as you -- using SuSE and needing an environment to get work done it. I downloaded the eval copy of VMWare and installed Gentoo in it. Once I knew that it worked and I found out I liked it, I zeroed out my SuSE install and went Gentoo when I had some free time. |
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Jeevz
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Well... just to save time why don't you wipe Suse and start running Gentoo now.
Once you try Gentoo you won't want to go back anyway.
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